[blasdel]

They were probably listed in that order in the documentation, and the javadocs are generated from the source.

It'd be more suspect if they were in a different order, especially if they were ordered as if they were in a hashtable that was iterated over.

[confuzatron]

Interesting but unconvincing theory. I have never seen public API documentation that lists private fields before. This certainly makes no mention of private fields: http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/sun/security/provider/certpat...